Anzu and Satiah's Dillema (Part 4)

"Didn't have a real sense of time beyond day by day. Didn't have a real language you could write down." She stretched her neck, like it started to hurt. "Walking is fine, I don't mind walking again." She climbed up harder. "I'll walk all day and I'll walk all night in this."

She didn't share much else but Anzu looked like she was crying on Yuugi. Before language. No concept of time. It was tragic for his friends, but at least the pain would fade soon. They were getting closer. "If neither of you have a god in you if Set returns, do you understand the possibility of what could happen?" If she wanted to be left alone, she should be able to understand it. Even state it. "The consequences will not be light."

"Set won't win. He might have the Legendary Gods on his side, but he doesn't have what we have." She reached the edge of the cliff. "Two ancient bitches who don't take shit from even Ra, coupled with one angry Jounouchi commanding the Dark Magician. These factors will put winning in our favor somehow." She gave him a hand up. "Don't tell Anzu I cursed. She hates when I do that."

"Is that being added on to the secret too?" Atem thought so, she had no interest in Bakura. Even then, she would rather join. Something Anzu feared. Relationships made things tricky.

"It shouldn't matter," she said toward Atem. "Throughout everything I knew, Masika never had children. Even in the depths of . . . it was unheard of. So it shouldn't matter." She stopped speaking again. "How much farther are they trailing behind? Oh. Anzu."

"She's feeling it too." Atem watched Yuugi holding her. Anzu allowed herself to be held. ///Atem: Never having children. Reincarnated countless of times, but they never had children? Very strange./// Jounouchi didn't bother them, but he had stayed closer to Yuugi's side now. The details weren't necessary, he just knew they both felt emotional pain. Both handling it so differently. "If you join to be the full human tear again, you cease to exist. Is that really worth it?" He didn't think she would answer. Then?

"A different phase that I must pass through," she answered. "If it happens, then it just has to be done."

Every one seemed to be making their way up the cliff now. Once they were up, they all walked toward the store.

Atem went over toward Yuugi. ///Atem: Yuugi. Anzu doesn't need to worry about Masika trying anything with Bakura. If she absolutely had to, he would be the easiest for her but she would rather ignore the gift and do nothing at all.///

///Yuugi: If Set comes after them before the time is up, then that's an issue though. He knows exactly where we'll be. I don't want them hurt by that mad man. What do you think, Atem? Do you think Horakhty really wants this, or is this just another game? Something to see if we choose the right action?///

///Atem: Horakhty had appeared in the Land of Memories, and had focused on friendship being the reason we won the game. It's hard to tell.///

///Yuugi: Well, I have to be able to tell. If this is a game, Horakhty picked the worst possible one to play with me. I love Anzu more than anything, but I don't love Satiah. I don't even know her that well, she feels entirely separate.///

///Atem: As she should feel.///

///Yuugi: I can tell at a glance who is who without looking at the hair or the clothes. I could never mix up the two. I have to know if this is some game, or if this is real. Until someone escapes Domino City, no one can say for sure.///

///Atem: A fair point. Exploring the scarab would prove helpful. Looking at the pieces of the millennium tome translation too. Maybe something is in there to defeat the ones wearing ankhs and scarabs.///

///Yuugi: I don't want this to be real. None of it. Anzu hurt so much, but she wouldn't tell me why. Oh. I want this to be just a game board we are all pieces on so bad. Maybe that's why we've all kept it together so well. None of us really knows. Was Mai stolen by a third party or simply released from the game? Is Honda truly okay? And? Do I really have to be with another woman to keep Anzu out of another bastard's hands?///

Atem didn't add anything to Yuugi's rant. ///Atem: Masika truly wishes for nothing, Yuugi. She has never been there for romantic moments, and she has no want of it.///

///Atem: I don't want this with Anzu though, this conflict! I just. It's not right.///

Atem wouldn't say it. Horakhty had thrown Yuugi in for a hard loop. He couldn't say for sure what anything had been, but the ending words of Horakhty to make the right decision? It could point to it as being a test. But the rest of it, none of it sounded like a test. Horakhty even wanted him to go back to the afterlife with Yuugi and miss the tragic end of humanity.

Which was the right decision Horakhty wanted to hear, or was there any decision? Was this nothing but a gift that had the extra burden of worrying about forming the human tear again attached to it? ///Atem: Horakhty wants them to be one again, Yuugi. What if they joined beforehand? Could you be with Anzu as the whole human tear?///

///Yuugi: I don't know. It would be part Anzu, but not really her. Why would it be any better?///

///Atem: Let's just say the whole human tear would not have a problem with being intimate. It could also be the opposite way. She was used to Bakura, and like you said, she wouldn't be Anzu.///

///Yuugi: She was a part of Anzu though, there would be a part of Anzu in there! It'd be like deserting her. For how long too, nine months? No, I don't like it.///

///Atem: Which is the better option? What is Horakhty wanting? That's the answer.///

///Yuugi: The answer is always what doesn't hurt my friends. Anzu is more than a girlfriend, she is my friend. Satiah. I don't know her that well, but we are becoming friends. I could never force anything on her either. So. The answer?///

///Atem: Is to choose nothing.///

///Yuugi: But if that's the answer? If Set comes and takes them before Horakhty appears?///

///Atem: Then it's time to find out how powerful Sekhmet made the Dark Magician.///

///Yuugi: You're right. But? You have to remember, Atem. We don't have the millennium puzzle, there's no luck on our side, and we are fighting gods. Not with cards. Not with rules.///

///Atem: It is true./// Atem could see the store ahead. ///But? As a friend once said, 'We do have two ancient bitches who don't take shit from even Ra on our side.///

Yuugi looked toward him strangely but didn't say anything.